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Independent senator for Vermont
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Sanders votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Sanders’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
| Biden margin | Biden score | Biden plus-minus |
|---|---|---|
| Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s | How often Sanders votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Sanders’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+35.4% | 90.9% | -6.6 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Sanders vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 22, 2022 | Providing appropriations for various federal departments and agencies for fiscal year 2023; updating the process of appointing and tallying presidential electors; providing money for humanitarian, security and economic assistance to Ukraine (68-29) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.9% | -99.9 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | support | No |  | 77.6% | -77.6 |
| Nov. 29, 2022 | Repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and requiring states to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages performed out-of-state; includes an amendment allowing religious organizations to deny services or accomodations for same-sex weddings (61-36) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.8% | -99.8 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| Aug. 7, 2022 | Allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices; extending Affordable Care Act subsidies; expanding tax credits for renewable and clean energy efforts; establishing a 15 percent corporate minimum tax; and other measures (50-50) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | support | No | | 99.3% | -99.3 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | support | No | | 98.3% | -98.3 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.9% | -99.9 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.9% | -99.9 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.9% | -99.9 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.3% | -99.3 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 21.5% | +78.5 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.4% | +0.6 |
| July 29, 2021 | Providing emergency funding for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack and for the expansion of the Afghan visa program (98-0) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 22, 2021 | Expanding voting rights and strengthening campaign finance regulations and ethics rules (50-50) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | support | No | | 98.5% | -98.5 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 100.0% | ||
| March 16, 2021 | Nomination of Isabella Casillas Guzman to be administrator of the Small Business Administration (81-17) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.4% | +0.6 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Bernard Sanders's Vote: No | support | No | | 93.9% | -93.9 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.9% | +1.1 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 67.1% | +32.9 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Bernard Sanders's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.4% | +0.6 |
| Average | 90.9% | 97.5% | -6.6 | |||
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